posted on Oct, 6 2010 @ 09:47 PM
This is a good development, and the corruption by Puerto Rican is a smorgasbord of corruption. Chances are not all of the corrupt police officers were
taken out of service by this arrest, but hopefully they got the memo and will discontinue their devious activities. I have come across stories of
police officers doing home invasions, shaking down drug dealers, using torture for interrogation purposes, and other serious affronts to the public
trust. So, if the FBI thinks I am supposed to be surprised by these arrests in Puerto Rico, I am not.
Any instances of corruption ought to be outed with extreme expediency by the honest and law abiding members of a police department, government agency,
or any institution where corruption is showing its ugly face. If corruption is not brought down at the very instance it is discovered, it usually
spreads like the incident in Puerto Rico. The corrupt spread their poison to others in the form of intimidation, threats of violence, hush money, and
other defensive measures to ensure the code of silence is adhered to by thos who have a conflict of conscience and may talk.
The good and honest people have to band together and deal with the criminals in their lot before it gets to epidemic levels like what took place in
Puerto Rico. Apathy feeds corruption. If it is allowed to continue, we have situation where the rats are telling the cats what to do. One instance
that comes to mind of LEOs doing their own policing, is an incident that took place in Mexico when officers rose up and arrested their own higher-ups
for corruption and dealings with drug dealers.
Mexico police detain their own commander at gunpoint
Police officers in Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico detained their commander at gunpoint, accusing him of corruption and links to drug gangs.
Perhaps, if more do what took place in Mexico when police arrested their own instead of waiting and doing nothing we won't hear about stories of
scores of police being arrested for corruption like what took place down in Puerto Rico? Puerto Rican law enforcement was severely comprised and it
took the FBI to come with the big broom to clean things up. Suspicion or incidents of corruption could have been dealt with internally by Puerto Rican
law enforcement years ago and when it was in its infancy, and we would not be learning about corruption of epic proportions like the situation in PR
today.
edit on 6-10-2010 by Jakes51 because: (no reason given)